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"[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure."
"If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."
"Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive."
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight."
"We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."
"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
"We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want."
"I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."
"If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray."
"Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president"
"When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly."
"When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this."
"I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it."
"It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess."
"I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it."
"Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers."
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
"Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence."
"First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now."
"But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
